Chapter 344: The Little Scholar and the Amazing Emperor 1
(The previous chapter has been revised. If the plot doesn't match, you can go back and take a quick look.)
Although Shen is smart, there are some things that he cannot see clearly.
Cha Jiu said, "Now that He Jinfu has become close to the Prime Minister and is now the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he is in power. We may not be able to gain any advantage by reporting him to the authorities, and we may even get into trouble."
Since the Jingzhao Yin and the Prime Minister are on good terms, it is inevitable that they will protect each other.
"Besides, if we report it to the authorities, then our brother's coma will be exposed, and our qualification for the imperial examination, which we earned through hard study, will be revoked, and the He family will have no more power to deal with us."
What if He Jinfu sent someone to burn down the yard where they lived?
All that was lost was a comatose useless man with a ruined future and two helpless weak women.
Who will take it to heart?
Shen understood the truth behind it, and also realized the dangerous situation the three of them were in. She couldn't help but feel hopeless: "But now the palace examination is approaching, even if we don't report it to the authorities, we can't keep it secret for long."
When He Yanyang was absent from the palace examination, the court would naturally send someone to inquire about the situation.
Cha Jiu frowned in thought and paced back and forth in the room.
Shen was anxious, but she didn't say anything to disturb him.
She knew that her sister-in-law, like her husband, was very smart and might be able to find a solution.
After a cup of tea, Cha Jiu finally spoke.
But what he said almost scared Shen to death.
"I am going to take the imperial examination on behalf of my brother."
Shen's eyes widened: "How can you, a girl, replace me?"
"A woman dressed as a man." Cha Jiu just observed He Yanyang's appearance and found that the two siblings looked almost exactly the same, except that the original bodies looked more childish.
Moreover, the two siblings were of similar age, and He Yanyang had always eaten before his sister since they were young. He himself was malnourished and thin, and his height looked about the same as Cha Jiu's current height.
Not to mention there is system help.
It's no problem for Cha Jiu to pretend to be He Yanyang.
The system put its hands on its hips and said, "I have a voice-changing tool that can make your voice more neutral."
Cha Jiu: "Thank you, Doraemon."
Shen didn't know how sure she was, so she panicked: "No, no, if we get caught, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor!"
Cha Jiu said calmly: "If we don't do this, the He family will immediately send someone to get rid of us after the palace examination."
It's death either way.
Shen was still hesitant.
Cha Jiu glanced at the sky and said, "We have to find another place to live quickly. If the He family is targeting us, they will definitely send people to find out the news."
Shen could only temporarily suppress her grief, pull herself together, and quietly find a new secret residence to move He Yanyang and all these worthless belongings there.
After dark, the two sisters-in-law really saw the servant sent by the He family looking around furtively at the door of their house.
Fortunately, the things in the house were cleared out in advance, so the man had to return empty-handed.
This time Shen was finally really scared and cold sweat broke out on her back.
She thought about it for a long time, and in the middle of the night, holding Cha Jiu's hand, she cried, "Why don't we just forget it? We can't defeat the He family, so we might as well move to the countryside and live there. Maybe we can live a peaceful life."
What fame, fortune, and fair inheritance? Can't they just give them up?
Cha Jiu sighed: "Brother has to take medicine for a long time, and your baby is in your belly. These are very expensive. We can't survive if we move to the countryside."
"Don't worry, if you are selected in the palace examination, I will have a salary to support you, and I will change back to my daughter's body when my brother wakes up. If you are not selected, I will sue He Jinfu in front of the emperor and seek justice."
Cha Jiu said firmly: "We have to choose between money and justice."
Shen knew that she had made up her mind, and tears suddenly welled up in her eyes. She hugged her and cried for a long time.
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The day of the palace examination arrived in a blink of an eye.
Cha Jiu changed into He Yanyang's clothes, tied up her hair, and used a black pencil to outline her eyebrows to make them thicker and sharper.
Sure enough, he is 80% similar to He Yanyang.
Even Shen could hardly recognize him when she saw him.
The palace examination was held in the Jiying Hall of the Imperial Palace.
When the time came, Cha Jiu walked into the hall with his head held high and his chest puffed out, following the tribute in front of him. Every move he made showed the demeanor of a man, without revealing any flaws.
But among the tribute team, there was always a group of eyes fixed on her, looking her over and over.
The person looking at her was He Jinfu's eldest son, He Wenxin.
He Wenxin looked at Cha Jiu's back and was extremely surprised.
The servant who did the beating clearly said that He Yanyang was nearly dead from the beating, and even the doctor at the clinic said that he was seriously injured and unconscious.
How come only a month later, he was able to come to take the imperial examination safely?
However, He Wenxin did not suspect anything and just prayed secretly that He Yanyang's head was smashed so that he could not answer the questions.
All the tribute scholars were led to the examination table in the hall.
The eunuch read out the test questions, which consisted of two questions.
First, how to deal with the problem of false relief and make the court's virtue spread to the people. Second, how to solve the situation of people's disunity when bandits and various religions are rising in various places?
When Cha Jiu heard this, he guessed that the test questions this time were most likely set by Yelu Zongzheng himself.
The Yuan Dynasty had only been established for a year, and many problems left over from the previous dynasty could not be solved in a short period of time. For example, the issues of people's livelihood and public opinion in the policy questions must have been a headache for Yelu Zongzhen himself.
After all, war only requires soldiers to fight and the winner becomes the king. But the people's will is not something that can be solved by force.
The tributes around were all thinking hard.
But after a little thought, Cha Jiu's ideas suddenly came to him and he picked up his pen to write down a countermeasure.
As time went by, she became more and more absorbed in her writing and did not even notice a bright yellow figure appearing behind her.
…
After the palace examination began, Yelu Zongzhen was not in a hurry to show up, but had been observing these tribute scholars in secret.
The test questions he asked were not obscure or difficult, but they were problems that the Yuan Dynasty urgently needed to solve.
To answer such questions, it is not enough to just write beautiful articles full of flattery and flowery words. Only those who have real talent and knowledge and understand the people's sentiments can give valuable answers.
This is exactly the kind of talent Yelu Zongzheng wanted to select.
Sure enough, after hearing the test questions, these scholars all frowned and pondered for a long time, not knowing how to start writing.
At the table, there was only a young man with a pretty face and petite figure who suddenly became enlightened while thinking over a cup of tea and kept writing.
Yelu Zongzheng noticed him and immediately became interested: "Who is this person?"
The eunuch beside him quickly replied: "Your Majesty, this person is the first place winner of the imperial examination, He Yanyang."
Upon hearing the name, the interest on Yelu Zongzheng's lips instantly disappeared, and his eyes became much colder.
Congratulations to Yan Yang.
He had heard it mentioned by several courtiers.
The writing is excellent, but the character is not so good.
Upon learning that he had won the imperial examination, he immediately went to a brothel to have fun, but unexpectedly he was smashed on the head by his enemy.
Yelu Zongzheng did not like these lustful and eccentric people.
He wanted to look away.
But my line of sight couldn't help but linger on that face with red lips, white teeth and gorgeous complexion.
That’s it.
Let’s go and see how these contributors answer.
Thinking of this, Yelu Zongzheng walked towards the table.
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